The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-01-20

rather than look again upon him she
would walk barefoot upon Goals of living
fire until the day ofiudgment.
"Fancy how the ears of the damned
will be pierced by the din of hell, the
groans of agony, the sharp cry of pain,
the shrek of despair, the ordinations
and recriminations of the damned, the
horrible blasphemies uttered against God
and his saints, the intolerable stencil
that shall constantly arise to poison the
air, the burning thirst that shall torture
the gIutton and the drunkard, as we
gather froms the parable spoken by our
Lord of Lazarus and the rich man, who
clad in purple and fine linen, Jared
sumptuously every day upon choicest
viands and wines of rarest bouquet, and
who having died, was, in the pregnant
language of the Scriptures, buried in
hell There he saw afar off Lazarus in
the blissful repose of them that had died
in the peace of the Lord, and he begged
Abraham to send the beggar whom be
had driven from his door and allowed to
die of starvation within the shadow OF
his mausion-the abode Of plenty-to
fetch him, not brimming goblet of
exquisite wine from his well.stocked
cellars on earth, not even as much water
as could be brought in the hollow of his
hand, but only drop pendant from his
finger tip, to relieve by even so little his
burning thirst, because, as be remarked,
Il am tormented in this fame You
will observe that he says, lin this
fame,' for his body was plunged in fire
as fish in water, or as bar of iron in
fire that becomes one mass with it. This
will give some idea, though faint, of the
pain of sense to be borne by them who
die in Gods displeasure. Add to this
that all this suffering is to endure for.
ever.
20 ye voluptuaries! gross libertines !
gluttons, drunkards, 'slothful, victims of
self love who shrink from every least
suffering and petty annoyance, bow will
ye be able to dwell in quench|eas fire?
"To some this may seem a dreadful
picture, but what will they say when they
are told that these are not the greatest
suferings inflicted upon the lost. The
pains of sense fall immeasureably below
those of loss. 1t is hard for US, so inAu.
enced as we are by matter, so clogged
and blinded by the clay Of our less noble
part, TO realize the agony that The soul
will experience from the loss of God.
But when our spirit will have been dis
embodied, when material influences will
have ceased to fetter her, all her heaven
born instincts will revive, and she will
see the nothingness Of creatures, and
realize that God is all in all to her; that
in Him her happiness is placed, and that
out of Him and alien from Him, she can
never taste moments joy. She will be
drawn towards Him by loves powerful
attraction; that she will strive to soar,
to nestle in His bosom forever. But,
alas this attraction, these yearniDgs and
)ougings after Him will be forever
thwarted. 1t is He that says to her,
depart from me, your God, your only
happiness. Depart ye accursed into
everlasting fire, prepared not for you, but
for the angels that were unfaithful to my
love-
"The soul will then be filled with
hatred for God, will blaspheme His jus.
tice that has pronounced such dread sem
tence upon it. His mercy, which,
although it spared millions Of others,
will not spare it. Thus love and hate
will forever contend for the possession of
the lost soul, and their conflict will reud
it and torture it forever. Memory will
bring before it the unbearable thought
that it has been damned through its own
fault, damned when it could have been
saved by less exeriion than was needed
to bring about Its endless loss. The feel.
ing takes possession of me that my Ian.
guage is colorless and void of strength,
and altogether unit to convey even the
least adequate idea Of the pains to be
endured in hell.
"Let one last word suffice: Just as
eye hath not seen nor ear heard, nor hath
it entered into the mind of man to con.
ceive' what things God has prepared fer
them that love Him, so eye hath not seen
ncr ear heard nor hath it entered into
the mind of man to conceive what things
God has laid in store for them who would
not yield to His love, but persevered in
provoking Him to indignation and wrath.